Program

8:30 - 09:15 Arrival & Registration

09:10 - 09:30 Welcome / Opening

Valentina Serreli (Arabistik, University of Bayreuth)

Rüdiger Seesemann (Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence)

9:30 - 11:00 Session 1

• Pantelleria: its Arabic dialect reconsidered
  Dominique Caubet (INALCO)

• The Moroccan verbal prefixes /kā-/ and /tā-/: evidence for a single, endo-Semitic origin
  Jacopo Falchetta (University of Bergamo)

• Moroccan Arabic bħal and the existence of a multi-pattern correlative structure in Maghrebi dialects
  Nadia Comolli (Independent researcher)

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 - 12:30 Session 2

• It’s funny!”. Decline in Use and/or Loss of Prestige for Modern Standard Arabic in Tunisia
  Lilia Ben Mansour (University of Jendouba)

• The standard ideological myth of Arabic as a ‘no-man’s land’: The case of Arabic as a university prerequisite course in Sudan
  Elshifa Mohammednour Elamin (Omdurman Ahlia University)

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch at Mensa

13:30 - 14:00 Poster Session 1

14:00 - 15:30 Session 3

• Gutenberg Reloaded: Ajami, the Hausa Digital Alaramma and Secular Texts in Northern Nigeria
  Abdalla Uba Adamu (Bayero University)

• Almost a stillbirth: Development and Use of Ajami in Ilorin Emirate
  Aliyu Sakariyau Alabi (Bayero University)

• The encounter of Arabic and Amharic in Ethiopian Islamic poetry
  Andreas Wetter (independent researcher)

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:30 Session 4

• Feature pool among migratory populations: variables and speakers from a micro-perspective
  Muhadj Adnan, Ajid Lawan Saleh and Jonathan Owens (University of Bayreuth and University of Maiduguri)

• Effects of migration on minority languages: the case of Nigerian (Shuwa) Arabic in the North East Nigeria
  Jidda Hassan Juma’a (University of Maiduguri)

• Language variation in the Arabic dialect of Nefza (Northwest Tunisia)
  Aleksandra Naddari (University of Vienna)

9:00 - 10:30 Session 5

• The Evolution of the Dialect of Casablanca: How a Bedouin-type variety became a basis for a national koine
  Terlan Djavadova (University of Vienna)

• Gender distinction in Tunisian Arabic dialects
  Veronica Ritt-Benmimoun (University of Vienna)

• Urban and rural: remarks on the classification of Essaouira Arabic (Morocco)
  Felipe Benjamin Francisco (Free University of Berlin)

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:00 Session 6

• La place de l’arabe dans le paysage linguistique des Comores
  Ali Abdoulhamid (University of Comoros)

• Arabic in Zanzibar: gone but not forgotten?
  Sarali Gintsburg (University of Navarra)

12:00 - 13:30 Lunch at Mensa

13:00 - 13:30 Poster Session 2

13:30 - 15:00 Session 7

• From Arabic du‘ā’ to Bamana dùbabu/dùgawu: the avatars of an Islamic formulaic genre in a West African language
  Klaudia Dombrowsky-Hahn & Francesco Zappa (University of Bayreuth and Sapienza University of Rome)

• Endearment Terms in Egyptian TV Series: A Sociolinguistic Study on Gender Style and Performance
  Hasnaa Essam Farag (University of Bayreuth)

• The Cairene jewelers' jargon (sim is-suyyãg): Sociolinguistic questions
  Esther Ravier (École Normal Supérieure - LATTICE)

15:00-15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 - 17:00 Session 8

• Change-of-state BCāD between Arabic and Berber
  Lameen Souag (LACITO)

• "Dialectal tanwin" and "intrusive -in(n)-" in Central Asia and Africa
  Volkan Bozkurt (University of Heidelberg)

• Thoughts on tense aspect-modelling at the intersection of creole and (African) non-creole varieties of Arabic
  Melanie Hanitsch (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg)

9:00 - 10:30 Session 9

• Arabic Language and Non-Arab Minorities in Mauritania: A Historical Analysis of the Crisis of Arabization
  Taleb Bilal Eli (University of Nouakchott)

• Understanding the role of language policy in the construction and maintenance of inequalities in Morocco and Tunisia
  Giacomo Iazzetta (University of Essex)

• Language Policies, Debates, and Planning in Morocco: A Socio-Political Approach
  Mohamed Bataoui (Hassan I University)

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:00 Session 10

• Preliminary Remarks on the Arabic spoken by the Dawwāda (Southwestern Libya)
  Massinissa Garaoun & Christophe Pereira (EPHE-LLACAN and INALCO-LACNAD)

• Settled nomads: The dialect of Ain Bni Mathar (Eastern Morocco)
  Evgeniya Gutova (University of Navarra)

12:00 - 13:30 Lunch at Mensa

13:00 - 13:30 Poster Session 3

13:30 - 16:00 Session 11: Roundtable Discussion

• Jeffrey Heath: “Arabic in Africa: a general linguistic perspective"

• Fiona Mc Laughlin: “Arabic in Africa: the sociolinguistics of writing”

• Catherine Miller: “Arabic in Africa: politics, policies and sociolinguistic perspectives

• Stephan Procházka: “Arabic in Africa – Arabic in West Asia: a comparative perspective”

• Open Discussion: “Arabic in Africa: why?”

16:00 - 16:30 Closing

List of posters on display

• The French-speaking Maghreb and Language Policies (Role of International Organisations)
  Jiří Bedrníček (INALCO)

• A historiography of Arabic language planning in Senegal
  Cheikh Modou Badar Diop (Mouhamed-V University of Rabat & Cheikh anta Diop University of Dakar)

• Reverse ʿAjami? Writing (not only) Arabic in a newly developed West African Script from Burkina Faso)
  Jannis Kostelnik (University of Bayreuth)

• Notes on the 19th Century Algiers Arabic. Through the Study of a Personal Letter
  Esma Larbi (INALCO)